Unicode characters in DynaPDFMBS

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1

Creating a mostly text PDF

Sample code from MBS follows:

[quote]call pdf.SetFont “Arial”, pdf.kfsNone, fsz, true, pdf.kcpunicode
call pdf.WriteFTextEx 100, 200, 500, -1, pdf.ktaCenter, “Arial with Unicode: ???”[/quote]

This works.

But text of mine holding a character of unicode &u2B08 always shows up as squares

??

It works in a text file under Arial and Helvetica on my Mac.
Anyone know how to make it show up properly in a PDF?

The text itself is several paragraphs. Some parts of it can be user generated.
One user has pasted in this character as part of their text.
Throughout my processing I added DefineEncodings as UTF8, and the character is visible as correct in the debugger before it is inserted into the PDF using WriteFTextEx as above.

2

Does it work, if you use Helvetica as font? Or Arial Unicode?

I fear the character may not be available in the regular Arial font and font substitution is coming with DynaPDF 5 version.

3

I’ve tried both.
It displays correctly in Textedit using Helvetica (and most other fonts) , but not within the body of a PDF

4

Were you able to find a solution, I’m having this same issue.

5

Can you show us some example code demonstrating the problem.

6

Please try latest DynaPDF plugin from us and make sure you use a font including this character like Arial Unicode MS.